A full table of oysters, lobster and chilled seafood at Fishing with Dynamite

Seafood & Oyster Bar · Manhattan Beach

Pristine seafood that blows you away. BOOM!

Thirty-two seats, one lively oyster bar, and Chef David LeFevre's love letter to summers on Virginia's Eastern Shore, served steps from the sand.

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A celebration of summers spent on Virginia's Eastern Shore and SoCal's vibrant beach communities: old school traditional seafood, new school flavors from around the globe, and the most pristine catch we can get our hands on.

right off the boat ↓

A red dutch oven brimming with whole lobster, shrimp, clams and corn

Small room. Big bang.

Fishing with Dynamite is a cheerful, 32-seat dining room anchored by a lively oyster bar, with twenty more seats on the sidewalk out front. It's the kind of place where champagne meets paper napkins and the raw bar takes up half the menu. Cozy up to the marble, ask what's freshest, and let the crew make sense of it all.

Seats inside

Sidewalk seats

Oyster varieties daily

Slinging shells since

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Connecticut lobster roll with fries, slaw and pickles

the classics, done right

Old School

New England chowdah' with house oyster crackers, Maryland blue crab cake, lobstah' rolls warm or chilled. The traditions we grew up on, treated with respect.

Chowdah' · Crab Cake · Lobstah' Roll →

Caviar service over crushed ice with lemon and herbs

flavors from everywhere

New School

Japanese hamachi sashimi with apple ponzu, black cod ceviche tostadas, chilled soba with cured ora king salmon. Worldly maritime flavors riding shotgun with the classics.

Hamachi · Ceviche Tostada · Chilled Soba →

Half the menu lives on ice.

Oysters from both coasts, chilled lobster, king crab, clams and caviar, shucked to order and gone in a slurp. Overwhelmed by the list? That's what the crew behind the bar is for.